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Letters Patent No. 80,311, dated July- -28, V1868.

IMPROVED SD-IRON HOLDER.

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' TO ALL PERSONS TO'WHOM THESE PRES-ENTSMAY COME:

Bure it known Ythat I, GUSTAVE H. ROTH, of B ostomin the county ofSuffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful orimproved Hand-Protector or Guard for Flat-Irons; and I do hereby declarethe same to be fully described in the following speciicationfandrepresented in the accompanying drawings, oi'

Figure 1 denotes a side elevation of a fiat-iron with'my guard appliedto it.' Figure 2 is a top view, and. Figu-re a longitudinal and verticalsection of the guard. The purpose of the said guard is to protect thehand of a person, while hold of the handle of a fiat-iron, from the heatradiated from the body of the iron, when such may be in use.

4 The body of the guard is-a flat shield, A, having the general'form ofthe Hat-iron body, it being constructedwith a ange or lip, a, to extendaround its edge, and downward therefrom. It also has feet orprojections, b 6, extended from it, and to rest on the top surface ofthe body c of the'liat-iron B. i

Furthermore, there are slots, e e, made from one sideof the body intoit, in manner as represented in fig. 3, and by dotted lines in fig. 2.-These slots are toreceive standards d d of the handle c. y

, Two latches, D E, pivoted at h l. to the guard, and formed 'as shownjniig. 2, and provided with springs,

F F, fixed to them and the guard, and arranged as represented, serve, bycatching upon the standards, to hold the guard in place on theUat-iron.-A movable cover or gate, G, pivoted at z' tothe guard, is employed tocover the open end of eachvof the slots e, when the guard isin properplace on the Hat-iron.

I make no claim lto the combination vot' a guard with the handle andbody Oi' a'lat-iron.

I claim the guard, as made with the lateral -passages e e arranged Vinit, and with latches D D to embrace 4 the fparts d d of the handle, andcover the passages ele.

I also claim the combination and arrangement of the movable covers G Gwith the guard, made with the slots e e, and provided with latchesthereto, as setY forth. n

' G, H. ROTH.

Witnesses:

F. RHA-LE, Jr., A. C. ROTH.

